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#netflix #urteil

Ich habe zwar mit Netflix nichts am Hut, aber wer ein Abo hat, könnte nach diesem Urteil evtl Geld zurückbekommen.
"Netflix hat in den letzten Jahren immer wieder Preiserhöhungen durchgeführt. Ein erstes Urteil des Landgerichts Köln hat diese für unwirksam erklärt".
chip.de/news/200-Euro-zurueck-…



Fila de voto. Entediados mas prenhes de cívicas intenções, os cidadãos aguardam vez. Acompanham, com curiosidade mal-educada, o progresso de uma senhora trôpega, de bengala, que mal chega à fila é civicamente ignorada pelos presentes até que alguém tropeça na cena e intima a senhora a avançar, pois tem prioridade. Os presentes entreolham-se, como que espantados e uma das senhoras presentes intervém, finalmente, para perguntar à geral "Mas porque é que ela não pediu para passar à frente?"
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Amazon is an AI Tech Company. Why Does it Get a Free Pass from the UK’s Publishers Association and the Society of Authors?

Amazon now has nailed its publishing industry AI colours to the mast. We cannot have one rule for Amazon and another for…
thenewpublishingstandard.com/2…

#AI #Amazon #PublishingControversies #UK #AInarration
@indieauthors



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Fast. Vereinsverbote macht der Innenminister, für Parteiverbote ist das Bundesverfassungsgericht nötig.
Die FAP war eine Ausnahme: die hat nicht genug Eigenschaften erfüllt, die sie für das Parteienprivileg gebraucht hätte.
(Ist, wie immer, das Problem mit den Memes)



Five Palestinian journalists among recent victims

Five journalists have now been confirmed killed in recent Israeli attacks, up from the previously reported three.

@palestine
#Gaza
#journalists



Magnetohydrodynamic Motors to Spin Satellites

Almost all satellites have some kind of thrusters aboard, but they tend to use them as little as possible to conserve chemical fuel. Reaction wheels are one way to make …read more
#hacking #projects
hackaday.com/2025/05/18/magnet…



How to Take Medicaid from Millions of Americans, in Less Than 72 Hours (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)

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Pope Leo XIV celebrates inaugural Mass at Vatican byteseu.com/1022543/ #Japan #NHK #NHKNews #NHKWorldNews


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Our societies and governments now largely run on American proprietary big-tech platforms. Many of us want to decrease this dependency, or even end it altogether. Here I wrote up a bunch of things we are doing wrong, and what the open world could do better: berthub.eu/articles/posts/what…

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Im Vergleich zum Vorjahresquartal sinken die #CO2-Emissionen in China um knapp 5 Prozent. Und das trotz eines Wachstums der Stromnachfrage um 2,5 Prozent.

Der fast ausschließliche Ausbau mit erneuerbaren Energien macht sich nun in China bemerkbar.

Mit diesem Effizienzzuwachs setzt China einen wichtigen Meilenstein.

ZDFheute: Chinas CO2-Emissionen sinken überraschend

#Klimaschutz #Energiewende

zdf.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/…




One simple metric of inequality in the UK:

in 1980 the ration of median FTSE100 CEO pay to median UK wages was: £1 - £11;

In 2022 it had become £1 - £118.

I think it's safe to say that is not commensurate with the improvement in the conduct & success of the top management of UK corporations; nor, should it be said, a fall in the contribution to the UK economy of the work of the general population.

The rentiers (as we know) have stolen our wages.

#inequality #economics #corporations
h/t FT